
Howard Lee
Partner, Head of Seoul
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Howard Lee is a Partner in BDA’s Seoul office. He joined BDA in 2015 as head of the BDA Seoul office. Before joining BDA, he led the M&A division of Samsung Securities, Korea’s leading domestic investment banking firm, for four years.
He was responsible for sourcing and executing domestic and cross-border M&A transactions for Korean corporates, private equity firms, and Government-related companies. His clients include several Samsung Group entities, Affinity, Carlyle, CVC, Goldman Sachs, Hyundai, Kolon, Korea Telecom, KTB, LG, Lotte, MBK, POSCO, SK, Standard Chartered and Visteon. Between 2004 and 2011, Mr. Lee worked as an Associate Director at Macquarie Securities’ M&A group in Seoul. Mr. Lee holds a BA, International Economics from Seoul National University. He is fluent in Korean and English.
Recent transactions
Divested majority stake in DHOLIC Commerce to Unison Capital
2023
Divested Doosan Enpure to SKion Water
2022
Series D capital raise
2022
Divested Doosan Mecatec to a consortium of Bumhan Industries and Metistone
2022
Divested Doosan Babcock Limited to Altrad
2022
Agreed to divest East Syracuse, New York facility to LOTTE Corporation
2022
Divested TES to SK ecoplant
2022
Divested stake in WINS to KCGI
2021
Divested Doosan E&C to a private equity consortium
2021
NECの子会社NEC Energy Solutionsの買収
2021
Divested Hyosung Capital to ST Leaders Private Equity
2020
Acquired EMC Holdings from Affirma Capital
2020
Divested Young Toys to MiraeN Group
2020
Divested a 70% stake to Affirma/SCPE
2019
Divested 80% stake to JKL Partners
2018
Divested Model Solution to Hankook Tire
2018
Divested VNPT ePay to UTC Investment
2017
Divested Kolon Water & Energy to SCPE
2016
Divested Doosan E&C HRSG to GE Power
2016